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[beetiger]

There's an article in the Wall Street Journal today about the current wave of cook-through food blogging, where the blogger cooks every recipe of a particular cookbook in succession. I've been thinking of doing one of these for a while. Not sure if the national coverage makes it ridiculous-trendy now, or if it's still the good kind of crazy. In any case, I kind of still want to do it.

If I did, anyone have a great idea of some cookbook you think you'd like to see me do? It probably shouldn't be too classic (ie I want to maybe be the first to cook it through), or too random (I should expect many of the recipes to be pretty good), and it should be mostly a main-dish cookbook (I don't want to make cookies every day for a year). It should contain mostly ingredients I'm likely to be able to get on the East Coast.

Comments

[pshaw-raven.livejournal.com]

You know, I've been pondering that myself. I have two on my shelf that might be good candidates, Almost Vegetarian and What to Cook When You Think There's Nothing in the House to Eat.

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

I think that a Martin Yan cookbook would be an awesome adventure, personally.
This one in particular I wanna go out and buy now.

[beetiger.livejournal.com]

Oh, that would be awesome! I'd have to go into NY Chinatown frequently to buy stuff, which could be challenging but cool....

[kensan-oni.livejournal.com]

The nice thing about Martin's Recipies is that he often includes substitutes for things lying around an American kitchen. Although, honestly, I don't know what Supermarkets are like outside of California.

[momentrabbit.livejournal.com]

Huh. I've been thinking about that lately. (Un?)fortunately, I've been thinking with the spare time I've got, Joy of Cooking would about fit the bill. ;)

[dv-girl.livejournal.com]

Upon hearing that, all I can think of is, "Oooh! I have one of the old 60's Joy of Cooking' books that contains recipes for turtles, opossums, and all other manner of woodland creature.